BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian cargo ship, sanctioned by the United States and carrying what Ukraine says is stolen barley from the war-torn country, has docked in Lebanon, the Ukrainian diplomatic mission in the Mideast nation said Thursday. According to the Ukrainian Embassy in Beirut, the cargo...

The Syrian regime has renewed artillery and missile shelling on various areas in Syria’s northwest, as it prepared for a Turkish operation in the country Regime forces attacked the Jabal Al-Zawiya area in the northwestern province of Idlib, as well as areas in the western countryside of...

Daraa and Suweida provinces in Syria saw casualties on Wednesdays as residents fought pro-regime militias in Suweida, while Assad's regime forces shelled Daraa, leaving over a dozen wounded and at least 18 dead. In Daraa, regime forces shelled the city of Tafas in northern Daraa, wounding at...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched a missile attack on the Kyiv area for the first time in weeks Thursday and pounded the northern Chernihiv region as well, in what Ukraine said was revenge for standing up to the Kremlin. Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, announced a counteroffensive...

Shipping companies are not rushing to export millions of tons of grain trapped in Ukraine, despite a breakthrough deal to provide safe corridors through the Black Sea. That is because explosive mines are drifting in the waters, ship owners are assessing the risks and many still have questions...

Syria's Defense Ministry on Tuesday released footage of its army's air force conducting joint drills with key ally Russia. Moscow is a key ally of President Bashar Assad, and the Russian army played a key role in pushing back armed opposition groups from overthrowing his government in...

BERLIN (AP) — Russia’s Gazprom on Wednesday halved the amount of natural gas flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe to 20% of capacity. It’s the latest reduction to Nord Stream 1 that Russia has blamed on technical problems, but Germany calls a political move to sow uncertainty...

Gunmen supporting Syria's regime and others opposed to Damascus clashed in the southern Syrian province of Sweida on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, a war monitor said. Six loyalists and four people against the regime lost their lives after the fighting erupted in two villages in the...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia targeted Ukraine’s Black Sea regions of Odesa and Mykolaiv with air strikes Tuesday, hitting private buildings and port infrastructure along the country's southern coast, the Ukrainian military said. The Kremlin’s forces used air-launched missiles in the attack,...

Australian authorities must speed up the repatriation of their nationals held in detention centres in Syria following the recent confirmation of the death of a Sydney teenager at a facility in the northeast, UN human rights experts said on Monday.   Yusuf Zahab, 17, had been taken...

The head of the Syrian Securities and Financial Markets Authority said that he hopes that a new currency of 10,000 Syrian pounds will be introduced, provided that no more than the damaged amount of the old currency will be printed, indicating that he did not confirm or assume that the Central...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat said Moscow’s overarching goal in Ukraine is to free its people from its “unacceptable regime,” expressing the Kremlin’s war aims in some of the bluntest terms yet as its forces pummel the country with artillery barrages and airstrikes. The remark...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Algeria’s foreign minister on Monday decried Syria’s decadelong suspension from the Arab League during a visit to Damascus, indicating support for the war-torn country's return to the organization under President Bashar Assad. Syria was expelled from the 22-member...

CAIRO (AP) — Temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world’s average in the past three decades. Precipitation has been decreasing, and experts predict droughts will come with greater frequency and severity. The Middle East is one of the most vulnerable regions in the...

Police in North Macedonia have found 86 migrants, including minors, crammed into a truck with an attached trailer in the southern part of the country and arrested the truck driver. The migrants from Pakistan, Syria and India were discovered late Saturday during a routine inspection near the...

King Abdullah II protested on Sunday what he described as regular attacks occurring near Jordan’s borders by “militias linked to Iran”, in an interview with Al-Rai newspaper.    King Abdullah called for “a change of behavior by Iran” and said that Jordan “does not want tensions in...

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops and special forces on an arrest mission exchanged fire with Palestinians barricaded in a house in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli police said. The local rescue service said two Palestinians were killed. Israeli police said a number of armed...

The Director General of the Syrian Oil Company said many investments to discover new oil fields in the north and south of Damascus and in central Homs province, local newspaper reported on Sunday. On the sidelines of the "SyrPetro" exhibition, which is currently being held in Damascus, Firas...

CAIRO (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Cairo for talks Sunday with Egyptian officials as his country seeks to break diplomatic isolation and sanctions by the West over its invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov landed in Cairo late Saturday, the first leg of his Africa trip that will...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa just hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals to allow grain exports to resume from there. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry denounced Saturday's airstrikes as a “spit in the face” to Turkey and the United Nations, which...